Ancestry trees!!!

[Ultramum]

Just came across one for one of my forbears that has:

Birth: 1791 ...
Death: 1855 ...
Residence: 1861 ... That would be the cemetery then ...

[exiled brummie]

According to a tree on YKW one of my wife's forebears allegedly had 12 children over a period of 34 years. 6 were born across the south west of England, and after each birth she went across to New Hampshire USA to have the next.

She was 86 when her first child was born, and she married her husband 182 years after he had died.

Who dreamed that lot up?

[strawberrymivvy]

It gets me so mad every time I get a "hint" on Ancestry and every single person's tree has the same quite obviously false information in it, just blindly copied across without reading...

[junedye64]

I have one of those.

One of my Ancestors was born 1680 Wiltshire
He died 1706 Pennsylvania US
His wife died 1754 Pennsylvania US

Guess what! Their son was born 1765 Stepney E. London.

June

[Mary Anne]

Hah! I thought I never would, but I just found one in a line I am researching where the person has somehow added a generation in between the father and mother that I have found (complete with mother's maiden name), and has the father as his father's son (born in 1765 in Wilts), marrying "R...?, a woman of colour" --- in 1769!!!!

No more on R...? but she must have died (!?) because he has the same man marrying another woman when he is aged 40 and still apparently living in Wilts (sounds more like it - that is if this generation exists at all).


Mary Anne

[mfwebb]

I have several of those and it annoys me immensely even to think about them, let alone speak about them -- so I won't.

[Ultramum]

Just found another one! This time the individual is born in 1828 and dies in 1942!!! (Not a typo as they have them alive in the 1851 census!)

[exiled brummie]

Just who is dreaming up these nonsense trees? Have now received a "hit". It's for me!!

Details for my male line back to my g grandfather are correct, provided the small matter of his place of birth - Ireland, when he was actually born in Dalton in Furness Lancashire - is ignored. However, either the tree or my birth certificate are wrong. According to the tree I am 2 years older than I thought I was, and my mother's maiden name was Bragg, not Taylor.

[Zen Rabbit]

In the early days of my research, when I was looking at hints a lot more I didn't find many weird BMD's as such but I did find a few who seemed to have hopped back and forth accross the pond. Naturally there were no sources to back up these claims.
On area of confusion was an ancestor who's son (of the same name) married a women of the same forename as his mother. Not only that but he named his children after his siblings. It took me two years to find the actual marriage but in the meantime according to various trees his poor mother was still having kids in her 70's!

[DorothySandra]

According to a tree on YKW one of my wife's forebears allegedly had 12 children over a period of 34 years. 6 were born across the south west of England, and after each birth she went across to New Hampshire USA to have the next.

Aren't some people amazing? One of my ancestors appears as hopping back and forth between Old Hampshire (UK) and New Hamphire (USA) I usually send a polite message pointing out the error. Sometimes I get a reply making a joke of it, sometime they remove the connection. Sometime they obviously don't care.